Poverty In America – More Whites In Poverty Than Blacks

Edward Wyckoff Williamswrites: The leaders of today’s Republican Party are expert storytellers. When it comes to manipulating racial stereotypes for political gain, they are akin to animation artists of the 1920s: coloring the lines in black and white.

Last Thursday Newt Gingrich told a crowd of senior citizens in New Hampshire, “The African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps.” Rick Santorum was even more egregious, claiming he doesn’t “want to make black people’s lives better by giving them other people’s money” (although he later claimed that he never intentionally said “black”).

Gingrich’s latest offense comes only weeks after he received widespread criticism for saying that poor children should work as janitors and clean toilets. He specifically made a point of addressing “inner city” youths — which has become conservative code for black and brown people everywhere, from the South to the coasts, the suburbs to the metropolises, regardless of where they actually live.

The report states;

Of the 46 million people living in poverty in America in 2010, the U.S. census revealed that 31 million were white. Ten million were black. Of the 49 million people without health insurance coverage, 37 million were white; 8 million were African-American. The face of poverty in America is overwhelmingly white, but as a 2009 study on children in poverty [explained], the white American poor, especially those in rural areas, are “forgotten.”

3/4 of America Poor are White, according to 2010 stats
Over 31 Million of them. Fuck em that’s they problem
I can’t sympathize with them even if I wanted to cause of
All the wickedness they’ve done to us as black and brown people Do I hate them no
But I don’t loose no sleep over their peril neither. As a black man with all the racism
In this country, I’ve personally been harassed and criminalized for my the color of my
Skin. I’ve been cuffed and frisked 3 times in my life and I’ve been a
Law abiding citizen my whole life, that aint right. White America has
Done too much wickedness and I believe as a collective entity, they are bunch of
Straight devils, I’ve seen and experienced white people behave like devils. This is first hand experience.
But I also not all Whites are bad, its millions of good white people
Who believe in truth and what’s right and what’s fair. Hate is the self destructive emotion
Is existence. Hate has many cousins. Anger, Rage, Envy, Grudges, and so on
All u Blacks who still bitter about Slavery and Jim Crow, especially if u never lived it
Get over that bullshit and get on with it, its stupid. Racism of
Any kind at this stage in the game is stupid, its stupid. Let’s talk
Common Sense now. Peace and Love to You All.